2020 Award Recipient
IshaClarke
Project Youth vs. Apocalypse
Project Youth vs. Apocalypse
People around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the climate crisis’s inequitable impact on under-resourced communities and communities of color. Isha first became involved in the climate justice movement when a company proposed building a coal terminal in West Oakland. She and her peers publicly protested construction of the terminal, later forming the group Youth Vs. Apocalypse.
Through her advocacy and activism with Youth Vs. Apocalypse Isha became known as a powerful leader fighting to reverse the climate crisis through community organizing, protests, and legislative change. Youth vs. Apocalypse has brought national attention to the proposed West Oakland coal terminal, led the largest youth climate strike in the U.S., and successfully helped facilitate California Governor Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on new fracking permits in 2019.
Youth Vs. Apocalypse fights to reverse the climate crisis and address the iniquitous effects it has on low-income and communities of color by organizing community action and battling for legislative change.
